Word: mi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marlow. Columbia's 150-lb. crew, in England for the famed Henley race, last week won a practice race from the Twickenham Rowing Club over the Henley distance (|⅞ mi.), at Marlow on the Thames...
Flying Governor. Governor George Alexander Parks of Alaska was at Juneau when he made up his mind to see his niece (he is unmarried), Mary Catherine Thompson, graduated from Mills College, Oakland, Cal., last Monday. So he jumped into an Alaska Airways Lockheed-Vega and made the 1,800-mi. trip in 20½, hours, first air passenger to accomplish it in so short a time...
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Died. Edward Payson Weston 90, of Brooklyn, N. Y., able pedestrian; in Brooklyn. His U. S. records: Boston to Washington, D. C., 443 mi., 208 hrs.; Portland, Me., to Chicago, 1,345 mi., 25 days; Manhattan to San Francisco, 3,500 mi., 104 days (aged 71); Santa Monica, Calif., to Manhattan, 3,500 mi., 77 days (aged 72). In a race in England he walked 550 mi. in 141 hrs., left his nearest competitor 100 mi. behind...
...Compressed Air, upon which he had been experimenting (e.g. his air-brake). The original plans of Cataract Construction Co. actually called for a plant at the Falls whence Mr. Westinghouse felt confident he could transmit compressed air to take the place of steam behind industrial pistons in Buffalo, 20 mi. away...